Speakers
Pekka Mattila
Dr. Pekka Mattila serves as a Professor of Practice at the Aalto University School of Business. He works frequently with European, Asian and African executive audiences on themes of strategic management and agility, strategy co-creation, business model innovation, executive leadership, top team dynamics, change management, organizational culture and strategic marketing.
Indrė Lelevičienė
Indre joined translation industry in 2004 when she graduated from Kaunas University of Technology. She is a former basketball player who worked as a freelance translator. Later, she joined a translation agency as a project manager and after having gained some experience, in 2020 she was offered a vacancy as a CEO of a LSP. In 2021 she was elected to the Board of the European Language Industry Association (ELIA). Her main interests are team-work and the human factor in our industry. She has also successfully built her personal brand to help her in her business routine.
Sarah Hickey
Sarah is curious by nature and a linguist at heart. As Nimdzi Insights’ VP of Research, Sarah analyzes the language services market from all angles and leads the research for Nimdzi’s global market studies, such as the Nimdzi 100 and the Nimdzi Interpreting Index. Her research further focuses on Virtual Interpreting Technology (VIT). Sarah’s experience as a translator and conference interpreter allows her to have a unique view of the industry. Her background in journalism has always led her down the path of critical thinking and objective reporting.
Ali Jahangiri
Ali Jahangiri is known as a stand-up comedian, opinion leader, speaker and entrepreneur. His comedy is sharp and insightful and deals with immigration, clichés of Finnishness, everyday coincidences and day-to-day politics. As a comedian, Ali is beyond compare. Always fresh and never afraid of sensitive issues, he is a keen observer of the human condition. Ali is also the only comedian awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2016). As a speaker, Ali takes his audience on a fast-paced journey. His is a story of entrepreneurship: the challenges he has encountered as an entrepreneur and a performer, and how he has survived setbacks. A positive attitude to life, belief in himself, and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge are Ali’s key themes, not forgetting humour.
Inge Rätsep
Inge Rätsep is the owner and CEO of Interlex Media & Translations. She has been active in the translation industry more than 20 years. She is also founder of Association of Estonian Translation Companies (AETC) and current member of the AETC board. Her company Interlex belongs among TOP 3 Estonian translation companies and is mainly focused for the Baltic and Scandinavian region. Inge has studied Estonian language and literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia and holds degree in Media and Public Relations. Always passionate with everything she does – managing her company, promoting language services, teaching in Tallinn University, running, sailing and much more.
Mirka Lahti
Mirka Lahti has worked as a translator since 1995, including 20 years as a self-employed entrepreneur. She is an experienced networker who has decided to stay self-employed, to serve her customers as best she can and to do it profitably. Lahti is also a founding member of Kääntäjämestarit, or Master Translators, an association that organises the Terässä conference for translators and interpreters, a member, formerly active and now semi-active, of the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters, and the chair of the Hervannan Yrittäjät local entrepreneurs’ association and of the Tampereen Yrittäjät association.
Erik Miller
Erik Miller is a second-generation translator and has worked in the industry since the late 1980s as a salaried translator, an entrepreneur and the owner and Managing Director of Bellcrest Translations. He is also an association veteran, having served one board of SKY and its predecessor SKTOL during four decades as a board member, President and Vice President and Treasurer.
Anne-Marie Colliander Lind
Anne-Marie Colliander Lind is a recognized force in the global language industry landscape. She has spent 30 years helping multinational organizations solve their language issues, serving in executive sales and management positions at leading service, technology and market research companies. She is the CEO of Inkrease, a management consulting company based in Sweden that assists companies in their growth and development strategies in addition to providing sales and marketing trainings. Anne-Marie is a sought-after speaker and is engaged part-time as marketing director for LocWorld and proud co-organiser of NTIF, the Nordic Translation & Interpretation Forum.
Katja Virtanen
Katja Virtanen is the founder and CEO of Delingua Language Services and former President of Finnish Language Service Providers (SKY). Before entering into the translation and localization business, Katja led a language school in Madrid and worked as a conference interpreter in the various EU institutions. In 2005, she established Delingua as a company of one. Today, after 17 years of spectacular growth, Delingua is one of the largest LSPs in Finland.
Jari Herrgård
Jari Herrgård is a software localisation expert who started his career as freelance translator and small entrepreneur, and later worked for several years at a translation company in various project management roles. He then went back to being an entrepreneur and was involved in developing and launching a web-based translation platform. Since 2020, he has worked as Technology Solutions Manager at Delingua.
